Kim Robins

Kim Robins (born 12 June 1988) is a 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He represented the Rollers team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Kim Robins
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1988-06-12) 12 June 1988
Perth, Australia
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
PositionGuard
Disability class3.0
ClubBe Active Perth Wheelcats
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place2018 HamburgTeam

Biography

Kim Robins was born on 12 June 1988.[2] He was diagnosed with a neural tube defect when he was about 12 months old.[3] In 1992, as a four year old, he was the poster child for a world-first education campaign run by the Telethon Kids Institute to raise awareness about the link between folate and neural tube defects.[4] He has a degree in sports science from Edith Cowan University and Masters in Finance from RMIT.

Basketball

He is a 3 point player.[2] At 18, he decided to pursue wheelchair basketball over tennis.[3] A deciding factor was that it was a team sport. “All my friends played, and Western Australia has a long history of producing exceptional wheelchair basketball athletes at an international level.”[3] He has played wheelchair basketball professionally in Perth and Europe.[3]

His international debut for the Rollers was at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany, where they won the bronze medal. His Paralympic debut with the Rollers ended with a win against Turkey for fifth place.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win/loss record of 4-4. [5] [6]

References
  1. "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  2. "Kim Robins". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. Heath, Nicola (9 August 2018). "How an Aussie mum and son became the face of a life-saving folate campaign". SBS. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. Tomlinson, Angie (10 September 2018). "Decades of research a win for WA babies". The West Australian. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
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